Knight Frank, established in 1896, stands as one of the preeminent independent property consultancy in the world. Operating across the Commercial, Residential, and Rural sectors, Knight Frank offers a wide range of agency and professional advice to its clients. Headquartered in London, the company has evolved into a global powerhouse with a presence that spans over 523 offices in 60 territories.
At Knight Frank, we take pride in being more than just a property consultancy. We are a firm of extraordinary advisors who work in collaboration with clients to provide lasting value. In our digital age, it's essential to empower our advisors and clients with cutting-edge digital products.
The current opportunity arises within the Digital Product Team based in our Warsaw Office. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring our Global Occupier client products are delivering the maximum business value and meeting our client needs. You will work closely with the Global Occupier team across the globe to develop the databases and data feeds items that underpin our growing number of digital products.
The ideal candidate for this role should possess a strong background in programming, data modelling, visualisation
and turning ideas into products for clients.
Your Responsibilities will include:
- To work with the Global Occupier team to turn data into analytics platforms for Knight Frank clients.
- Developing new R Shiny applications and maintaining the existing ones.
- To extend the team’s data modelling and product development.
- Creating interactive maps using Leaflet
- Generate new ideas of how data can be analysed and presented to clients through digital products.
- Preparing data visualizations for team’s presentations with clients.
- Analysing data from Google Maps Directions and Distance Matrix API.
- Interpreting business requirements and converting them into interactive dashboards.
- To work with multiple stakeholders across the client product portfolio
The ideal candidate will have experience of:
- 2+ years of experience developing RShiny applications
- Working knowledge in Python
- Experience with Leaflet or other mapping library
- Experience with data visualization libraries like ggplot2, plotly or highcharter
- Experience with data cleaning and parsing
- Familiarity with HTML and CSS
- Familiarity with basic principles of version control (Git)
- Proficiency in fundamental SQL operations and database querying
Experience of the following or similar desirable but not essential:
- Basic ETL knowledge
- Excel proficiency
- Experience writing unit tests
- Familiarity with Docker
- Familiarity with Bash for command line operations and scripting
- Basic JavaScript programming skills
- Basic knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data analysis
Other requirements:
- Great communications skills
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- A high level of self-motivation and a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Inquisitive mind and desire to innovate and develop new tools
- Strong analytical and statistical skills with strong attention to detail
We offer
- Friendly atmosphere focused on teamwork
- Flexible working hours
- Possibility to work fully remotely or from the office close to the city centre of Warsaw, Poland
- Private medical care
- Access to Kafeteria, with Multisport cards, tickets to cinema/theaters/concerts and many more (for employment contract only)
- Life insurance
- Regular team meetings in London or other European location